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The Internet brought a great
deal of benefits to our life. Access to a lot of free and
useful information is, probably, one of the most important
out of them. However, this abandon of free information has
also become a problem to some extent. You started to spend
a little too much time on the Internet. For you emails,
chat rooms, messenger services along with aimless web
browsing dominate substantial portion of your workdays. As
a result you feel that you are loosing control of your
working hours, your productivity is decreasing and you are
accomplishing far less in a day than you are capable of.
This makes you frustrated, miserable and negative. What to
do? How to get out of this mess?
According to Brian Tracey,
a renowned self-help guru, Principle of control is one of
the most important factors of life. This principle
ascertains that you feel positive about yourself to the
degree to which you feel you are in control of your life.
The same way, you feel negative about yourself to the
degree to which you feel that you are controlled by
external forces.
The thing is if you don’t
feel positive about yourself, it would be impossible for
you to become successful. This means to become happy and
successful you need to regain control of your life. The
following suggestions will help you achieve this:
Set Goals
Goals are like road maps.
If you are planning to visit a new place and don’t grab
a road map of the place with you, most certainly, you will
have difficulties in finding the place. A written goal
will give you a clear idea of what exactly you would like
to achieve. Goals also give you a sense of control over
your directions.
Goal should be Specific: I
would like to become a better online businessman is not a
goal. It’s a mere statement! Goals should have clear,
substantiated and detailed target!
Goal should be measurable:
I would like to get 100 thousand new visitors to my site
within six months is a specific and measurable goal.
Goal should be realistic: I
want my site to become like Yahoo! within one year is
probably a unrealistic and impossible goal. If your goal
is too easy to achieve or an impossible one to reach, you
will soon loose interest in it. Make sure that your goal
is high but attainable.
Set a deadline: Each of
your goals should have specific deadlines for their
achievement.
Create a detail plan of
action: List every action you have to take in order to
achieve a certain goal.
List obstacles: Write down
all the obstacles that you might encounter on your way to
reach this goal. Each time you overcome an obstacle from
your list, you will feel good about yourself. This will
work as a motivation for you to continue.
Make Lists
While developing your plan
of actions for your goals, make two basic lists, a
comprehensive master list and a more specific daily to do
list.
The master list is a single
ongoing list of all things that you plan to do in order to
achieve your goals. It does not matter whether it is a
major goal achieving work with a year long continuation or
a small urgent task you need to finish today. Whenever you
have come up with a task that you have to do, you add it
to your master list.
Each evening create a
specific daily to do list for the next work day. Make sure
that this list is not too long; and all tasks of this list
can be finished within the next working day. If some of
the tasks, however, remain untouched at the end of the
day, just roll them over to the next day’s list.
To use this list
effectively you have to distribute your tasks according to
their priorities.
Remember Priorities
Since it is impossible to
predict whether you will be able to finish all the tasks
from your list in one day, and since some of the tasks are
more important than others; you should prioritized the
tasks according to their importance in achieving your
goals.
To develop a priority-based
to do list, write all the tasks you are planning to carry
out the next day. Go through the list carefully and mark
each of them according to their priority: A to be the most
important and D to be the least important tasks of the
list. Reconstruct the list according to the assigned
priorities.
Start working form the task
number one from you list and go down accordingly. This
priority-based to do list will be able to guarantee the
followings:
You will know which tasks
should be carried out first You will always have a
comprehensive to do list, allowing you to focus on the
things that you need to. However, make sure that you
don’t have more than three tasks with highest priority.
As too many high priority tasks will keep you under stress
and will constantly distract you from the job at hand.
Focus on One Thing
To be successful in any
field you need to have many qualities. The ability to
focus on the tasks of highest priority and continue
working on them until you bring them to their logical end
is one of the vital skills of success. Many people of
mediocre abilities achieved great success thanks to just
this one single quality.
Once you made your to do
list and prioritized it, concentrate on one task at a
time. No matter what we do, our mind can concentrate in
one thing at a time only. If you try to do several things
simultaneously, this will only distract you and slower
your pace in accomplishing the task with highest priority.
These simple and well-known
rules can really do miracles to your life! Try them, you
won’t be disappointed!
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About
The Author
Nowshade
Kabir is the founder, primary developer
and present CEO of Rusbiz.com.
A Ph. D. in Information Technology, he has
wide experience in Business Consulting,
International Trade and Web Marketing.
Rusbiz is a Global B2B Emarketplace with
solutions to start and run online
business. You can contact him at nowshade@rusbiz.com |
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